1. Approval of Agenda and minutes: agenda and Jan. minutes approved.

2. Reports and Updates

R. Womack will send his reports by e-mail. The approval expenditure stays on the same track. Over
$192,000 was spent for approval books. An additional $100,000 has been allocated by T. Izbicki for
approval books. We have used up all of the discretionary endowment funding. Selectors should try to
send in all the orders by the end of March. LRC did not meet this week, but will meet in two weeks.

G. Smulewitz: With the departure of Mary Belinski and Rob Hilliker, staff at DTS will help out with the
workflow of acquisitions. DTS continues to work with electronic resources holdings. EBSCO will meet
with systems today to address issues related to DOI and linkresolver. G. Smulewitze attended the
Springer Ebooks Summit for Academic Librarians in Philadelphia. Most academic librarians indicated that
they work with multiple platforms and vendors.

3. Future Ebooks Discussion with Faculty - J. Niessen

At the next RUL faculty meeting, there is a plan for having a discussion with a group of teaching
faculty on ebooks. Some of the questions that may be of interest to us are the following: How do our
users use ebooks as consumers? What are some of the useful features of ebooks? Do they use ebooks
readers?

The group discussed how the discussion can take place. There is concern about the response from the
faculty being heavily science related, as most of the ebooks that we have purchased are science-
oriented. Some members welcome such discussion as an opportunity to have a dialogue with our users and
understand the possibilities of using ebooks for research and studies.

J. Niessen asks for names of teaching faculty who may be interested in attending the forum after the
RUL Faculty meeting. He will send out an email for us to forward to the faculty.

4. Liaison Relationships - Goal Item - N. Kranich

Liaison relationship is a goal item of NBCG. A year ago, we started the task force that focuses on the
changing roles of library liaisons. N. Kranich shared a document that describes the vision of the
Liaison Action Group. Some of the issues for the liaisons to think about are the following: What kind
of indicators can we use to show our impact? How do we measure ourselves? Libraries are moving from
collection-centered model to liaison-centered model. Our work has changed from individual to a more
collective approach. How do we broaden our outreach? How do we work as a team? We should try to
deemphasize the library internal focus and embed ourselves into the departments and centers. How do we
reposition ourselves, increase the value of our services and give us opportunities to rethink our
priorities? How do we strength our liaison, change our authorities and accountabilities? What is the
job description of librarian liaisons if we take this vision into effect? We want to start
conversations with our community and listen to our community to find out their needs. If we become
invisible, the users do not see our value.

Nancy will talk about this at the State of the Libraries meeting on Feb .28, 2011. In addition, an
informal gathering of liaisons will take place very soon. All the liaisons are encouraged to attend
such meeting to share ideas and experiences.

5. Announcements

R Womack: NBCG will not meet in March due to the promotion tenure workshop. He will continue to send
out emails related to our budget situation.

M Fetzer:

T. Izbicki and J. Mardikian have investigated the impact of possible merger with UMDNJ. M.Fetzer submitted the report to the cabinet.

M. Fetzer will meet with the deans and look into their idea of having a business library on Livingston Campus.

Along with University of Michigan and other institutes, Rutgers libraries received part of 18.5 million dollar grant to support University of Liberia. The grant helps to create an agricultural center of excellence in Liberia.

K. Denda: As part of the Asian American scholarship program, she is collecting ethnic papers. She hopes
that the scholars from American Studies Dept, East Asian dept and special collection will help us
identify the resources. She looks forward to interesting conversation with this community.